Last month, customs agents at JFK International Airport discovered more than seven pounds of cocaine stuffed inside three large chunks frozen goat meat, which were packed in a passenger’s luggage.
On March 20, Yudishtir Maharaj flew from Port of Spain, Trinidad into JFK, where custom agents selected him for a random search.
Special agent Michael Martinez indicated Maharaj “presented a checked-in, large black suitcase and a laptop bag for inspection.
When the officers examined the suitcase, they found three packages in the suitcase, which Maharaj claimed “in sum and substance contained frozen cooked goat meat. The three packages were X-rayed revealing a square-like object inside of each one.”
The CBP officers later took Maharaj into a private room and, according to Martinez in the court docket, “drilled into the packages and discovered a powdery-white substance, which later tested positive for the presence of cocaine.
